Sponsored by the Kansas Water Institute
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Cost Share Information Management System
Best management practices
Land owner, cost, units, time of implementation
12 digit Hydrologic Unit Code level
47,958 observations from 2003 to 2025
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
56 year longitudinal tracking (1969-2025)
17 different analytes relevant to water quality
58732 observations originally
536813 observations when stacked by analyte
After cleaning
Precise latitude and longitude for each station
Spatial misalignment
Records of time tend to be crisp
Space not so much
Ongoing problem
Methods exist
Valid standards don’t
Stations across Kansas were identified as “above acceptable levels”
Recently there were some delisted
These are our focus
What happened around these stations (Watershed, county, and basin level) that possibly contributed to them “getting better”